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more successful In restricting its
February 5, 1940.
THERE'S NO
NO SUCH
THING AS A
BELGIAN?
THERE are two weak spots
in the £60,000,000 Maginot Line-its ends One
end renches Switzerland. at Basic. The other reaches Belgium, at Malmedy.
If invading armies can force their way round the enda France's claborate shield will be about as useful as the Great Wall of Chinn.
The German High Command must have given a lot of con- sideration to the choice be tween these two weak spots. Jogged mountains defend the Swiss end; but what are the prospects at the Belginn end?
The danger-zone twenty-five-mfle brpad district Jutting into Germany between Holland and Luxemburg, call. ed Liege. The algnposts say: 60 miles to Brussels, 200 miles to Paris. Next to the frontier lie two small patches of land named Eupen and Malmedy (pronounced Oy-pen, Mai- mnidy).
Hitler has always wanted them once they were Ger man. He plotted to get them by incessant propaganda-A he got the Sant. But for once his plans fizzled out. At the elections lasi spring the Ger man party failed to win single seat In either of these districts.
n
Many Belgians will not want to help defend this gap-be- Chen Belgium is really two countries. Racially speaking, there is no such thing as a dyed-in-the-wool Belgian. In the north vou have the pro- German Flemings. In the south are the Walloons, who are pro-French. They hate each other no much that if you nak the way in Antwerp (n Fleming city) the man you ask will sometimes purposely mis-
direct you, thinking you are a Walloon. That's how neigh- bourly they are.
King Leopold hns been working to unite these two factions A German attack may show if he has succceded.
About the only ways Bel- gium resembles Holland are in size and population. Belgium Is Roman Catholle, Holland in Protestant. Belgium is, with Saxony, the most highly indus- trialised country in Europe. Holland depends greatly on her dairy farming.
The Dutch problem in to sell her surplus agricultural pro- duce. The Belgian problem is to find enough farms for her labourers to work on. She has one and a half Umes as many people to the square mile as Britain, twice as many as Germany, Hitler's prattle about "living space" makes the Belgians lough cynically. Belgium is the most over- crowded country in Europe.
Belgium pulled herself to- gether gallantly after the war, restoring her finances, improv- ing her trade and raising the standard of Hving of
the working classCA.
But when Hitler raises the cry "Give us back aur colo- nies," oven the Flemings don't feel so pro-German. Because part of Belgium's huge colony In the Congo, eighty times as large as herself, was taken from Germany after the last war. Belgians poured money Into this new district, called it "Astrida" after their dead Queen.
not
No. Belgians would like to see Germany win the war.
The
66 Asama
99
and
Maru " Belligerent Rights
THE grounds from which bean sufficiently informed that the
international
Japanese Government hitherto have contro-stood for the recognised provision versies can arise are many that the nationals of a belligerent and varied.
These
Power aboard a neutral ship whose aurronder the other belligerent differences may Power would be able to demand range from questions of should be confined to those included. I state rights and duties to in the military forces."
those of national interests,
and they may be slight or THE British reply to the protest serious according to circum-Government on January 27. It is.
stances.
was handed in to the Japanese -L-
understood that the British note: Numerous ag such pointed out that the stopping of the Asama Maru, and the removal of grounds for contention are, German passengers were carried! they can, nevertheless, be out in accordance with the right of divided into two groups, a belligerent Power under Intor. And, that the Ger-- mane removed were on their way- viz., legal differences and national Law. political differences. That home by order of their home. being so, the m settlement of state disputes may therefore
be approached
by
Dr.
from either a Lin Wo-Chiang
legalistic or
the political
standpoint.
Government al
the latter's ex- pease; that it was evident that upon. return home they. were to be em- bodled into armed. forces immediate- ly,
That, fur- thermore, the British Govern- ment hold that the clause of the London Declaration providing for the seizure of enemy
can be extended to apply to reserves..
Gordon Taylor between these grounds of it was also explained that according
SAUNA
serves, and that of all males of
Although in practice a sharp line cannot be drawnationals embodied into armed forces. It has often been argued that the capacity of modern aircraft must
differences for the purpose to German law, there is no difference Larry Clinton's Orch.render our seu-borne supplies pre-
of determining which stand-between combatants, including row Artle. Shaw's Orch. various. The experience of the first
point should be taken in a military age. In conclusion, the note months of war is all against such Tommy Dorsey's Orch. theories, Coastal air patrols by their
given case; yet, whenever suggested a refusal of the proposed action against enemy submarines have. ..Dorothy Lamour.proved a formidable increase of our
possible, a solution from the release of the Germans taken away.. legal point of view is always
☆ ☆* .Fats Waller's Orch. power to command the sea, They
to be preferred.
TF this in what is said to be sub- 66FIRST we will explore on to huge boulders piled on a sence, prisoners have confessed, often
stantially the content of the When an incident occurs be British note, in reply to the Japanese She pokes an delers a U-boat captain from attack
the island and then crackling stove.
our belief that tho On merchant shipping. German we'll have a bath about 3 other bundle of faggots into the tween States, it can usually be protest, then
fire and turns to reassure her
more effectively settled to the British Government has taken its CHATER ROAD. frightfulness may yet devise some o'clock," my hostess said foreign guest.
satisfaction of both parties by land from the legal point of view. Wwwfresh tactics for her sink-nt-sight this morning.
"You cannot breathe?" she have been more
principles and usages which instead of "the broad view-point warfare, but thus far we have been It sounds an odd pro-aaks politely. "This will make monly agreed upon and better the development of the negotiation as expected by the Japanese Govern- or less com- ment, is confirmed. However, as effects than we had a right to hope. gramme.
you better." And she, dips her The Fighter Command which must
But..
when in Finland, fingers into a bowl of cold water understood, than by political on this affair indicates in the list
considerations, which deal with any German bombers sent do as the Finns do.
and presses them gently on to generally rather vague and dif- her utmost to satisfy Japanese."
are few days Great Britain might do
against us
my throbbing eyelids. Grate-ficult to define. has not yet gone into However, she seems to fully I take the bowl and follow
aspiration by taking into recount of iction,
but results of our
It appears that in the recent the "political implications," whlio- naissances over Germany and of co-
recon- have changed her mind for her up to the wooden gallery
Casc of the "Asoma Maru" reserving the question of principles: operation with the French Air Force
we have explored every-made out of smooth slats set an
Great Britain has endeavoured lavolved. over the Siegfried Line supply strong thing and are strolling about inch or so. apart.
to justify her-action by then discussing the legal principles reasons for belief that enemy squa- the garden. A tiny, crim- jolt by flicking me unexpectedly to premise her complaint on may start either from the angle of Here Elli gives me another former, while Japan has chosen involved in the present case, one- son-painted hut stands by with a bunch of wet birch-the latter considerations. in the
neutrol. rights and duties or from possession of the Air Ministry is the lake. She pushes open leaves. They smell delicious. Hankow Rd., Kowloon,
Without the least intention to the angle of belligerent rights and closes that "our latest fighters are de- its door and
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reached would be the same, alnce- Great Britain and Japan in this Intive. Here, for convenience, I case, more than what is re-propose to start from the former marked above, this is written angle, beginning with neutral duties. objectively with a view to find-in times of war. ing where the real issues rest, ór should rest.
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drons would pay a heavy toll. Technical evidence now
counterparts." This is conflrined by
we enter #
the startling records of flights of our minute cabin Bomber Command scross Germany, with a bench **** testing defences, observing, troop in it and some
concentrations, dropping leatlets and reaching the great majority of the objectives. There have
pegs on the inevitably wall. been losses, though far less than the Germans have claimed.. But the free-
"Undress
-by- TRUDA PANET
dom of movement of our aircraft, day here," she says briefly.
I
"This will makė you perspire," a he says and flicks away
impar- tially at herself and mo.
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FIND myself reciprocating
giggling childishly. I believe I
✩
The issues of the prosent case- seem to hinge on the kind of“ answer to be given to these two- questions: Firstly, in It per- SHALL first recapitulate the missible for neutral ship to carry essential facts connected milltary persona or persons "em-- with ever-decreasing dim-with this case, and then proceed bodied in the armed forces of the No dence and another bundle of on to a discussion of the legal enemy? Secondly, Can the Ger-- You mean a birch-leaves till we are both principles involved and pre-force from the Japanese ship, the mans removed by the British naval cedents applicable,
"Asama Maru," be regarded as From news reports, which have military persons or persons "em~- so far not been denied, the incident bodied in the armed forces" of the
opened in this way. At about enemy of Britain? If the first" 5 miles off the Japanese coast, a negative and the second question, in noon, on January 21, and at a point question could be answered in the British warship ordered, the Asama the affirmative, then Great Britain Maru, on her way from the United was only exercising such belligerent States to Japan, to stop. Arights is recognised by InternationalTM party of British officers boarded the Law. Japanese boat, and demanded from
after day and night after night for neross Germany, and the
This is a shock, German "Here official denials of their presence-over bathing-dress...
is this?... Berlin for example-though search-bathe ?" I babble. lights and guns blazed at them, give us a heartening standard of com- says and behold she is nude and
"You need no costume," she jam enjoying myself
El tells me to lie down and parlson of nir naisunce is the major purpose, and door.
strength. Recon- disappearing through another relax. A delicious languor steals over me. The wooden slatted bench is not really uncomfort able. There is, something, de- cidedly, about these Finnish
the distribution of leaflets to the German people is of secondary im- portance. But it is well that they should be wamed of the
has driven them.
dangers
I
AM alone.
upon which their Fuchrer's madnessing and splashing come through
And awful sounds of crack-baths... that second door and the very walls feel hot.
We have still to wait for the maxinium effort of the Air Force, which should certainly be reserved for the time and the place at which, It will have the greatest effect. The scale of that effort is growing repldiy. Production of aircraft has now reach-
WHAT am I in for?
away.
Ell's voice comes to me through a haze of dreams.
"Time to go now. Twenty minutes is long enough for your
the captain the removal from hia The first, being a question in the ship of certain Germans whose abstract, can be readily answered in: names they presented in a list. the negative.
As a consequence, 21 Germans
to
Since neutrality, as Oppenheim of military age wore taken of the vessel, while thirty other Germans, Bays; "is an attitude of impartiall mostly merchants, were allowed to ty" it in the duties of neutrald to continue on their way.
refrain from giving`auch Rsaistanco- On the night of the second day, and succour to ono of the bel the Japanese Government lodged allgerents- as is detrimental formal protest with the British the other; and such Injuries to benefit the other.. demanding the handing over of the Among these duties, which war Im Government,, resorving the right of the ono - ̄ns. Germans. It was further pointed posed upon the neutrals; is a kind out in this note that Japan regarded service" which they should not ren- of assistance known as unacutzal the forceful removal of these men der to the enemy, By, inneutral from a neutral ship near the const service, as it is understood nowadays, of Japan as an unfriendly act; for is meant the carriage, of, persons and which the requested, ad early ex- despatches for the enemy by neutral from the British Government it of contraband, which forms a dif planation, "sumclent and solid;"'! ships, in contrast, with the earringe concluded with the request that the forent category of itself. The breach great British Government may profound of the former duties is regarded as It consideration to the matter in the more serious matter, such net broad light of the relation between to the enemy; ond in extreme cases is deemed to be in the direct servico Japan and Britain."
I am scared but dare not run first bath. We go to the lake." Drowally, contentedly, I pick England expects, etc.
up my sodden coat, forgotten in Naked, I feel oven less brave. a pool of water by the door. So I clutch my coat as a last link dazed with relaxed warmth I aff output, sun twice the large pre-war with the life. I know and push that I hardly realise that Elli is
Still further expansion is being arranged. But most important open the other door.
leading mo, pink and boiled and of all developments is the scheme of
A cloud of boiling steam com- still naked, ACROSS THE GAR co-operation with the Dominions. pletely blinds me and my-timid DEN. Canada, Australia and New Zealand feet slide on a wet, stone floor.
But
the gardeners work on un- have agreed to train pilots and other Gradually my eyes pierce the concernedly. personnel and produce aircraft on a fog and I see Elli's pink form
Gradually the cool air revives new and far greater scale. Thus the hurling buckets-full of cold water me and no we run through the resources and ille areas of the Em-.
criss-cross shadows of the fir pire free from any risk of enerny
as those of Australia and New Zen-trees on the dry Band I think attick will be utilised to the utmont land, will have their final prepara miserably. for the creation of Air Forces to
tion for service, Thin scheme defend the whole British Common-meat of the conditions of the world will kill,me...
been inspired by far-sighted juas cold after extreme heat
*I shall die of this wealth of Nations. Such a manifold and the potentiality of the British union of Imperial effort has never Empire. We may fiów look forward before been devised. Each Dominion to an Imperial lifr:power of, oval-
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It is significant that in the such neutral vessel in liable to be
treated as an energy merchajat ves will have its own training schools, he rental older and BUT with the Alice in Wonder Japanese Nota, as far an avaliable cel. The condemnation in the leat but, advanced courses ara, to be con- justice in the spitit of that noble afternoon has worn, I find I am
"land quality that the whole information goes, hardly any re-century of the Orozembo" and the centrated in Canada. There many Squadron motto, "I spread thy wings,
forenta was made of the legal - Friendship, two Americón, vessels, of our own Air Force recruits, as well and I keep my .. promise."
***PLEASE Tural To Pagò 3. A
pect of the matter. Beyond remark-by Great Britain for carriage of Ing that "the British authorities hau PLEASE Turn To Page 2.
will vindicate
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